Stories of the poison known as "gu" go back centuries in China. Some of... ...aft, but the more recent legends are of women who poison traveling men for seduction, robbery, or revenge.... ...eling men for seduction, robbery, or revenge. The poison itself is made by combining t...

Plenty of wives have tried to poison their husbands over the years, but when Mrs. Zhan... ..., she didn't want to go the traditional method of poisoning her husband's food. Instead she soaked her husban...

The following article is from the book Uncle John&... ...the town of Krissa in the sixth century BC, they poisoned the local wells with the toxic hellebore plant, a... ...strong enough doses, death.Another case of mass poisoning took place in the first century BC. Knowing that... ...first century BC. Knowing...

(Video Link)What do cashews, potatoes, tomatoes, apples, almonds, cherries and mushrooms have in common? They're all surprizingly dangerous. Sure, if you eat the ones sold in your local grocery store, you'll be fine, but...

Ed Yong tells of a case in which a species leapfro... ...odrats themselves did not develop immunity to the poison , but have gut microbes that break down the creoso... ...ry is how one can instantly turn a woodrat into a poison -eating machine just by introducing the right micr...

It's bad news for princesses, of course, but for e... ...rincesses, of course, but for empires and armies, poison can be a game-changer.WHERE THERE’S SMOKE,... ...ult. And for murder, the drug was just the right poison for its time—mid-19th-century scientists h... ...ntury scientists had no ide...

Arsenic was, at one time, a very popular way to mu... ...lar way to murder someone. It was the most common poison to factor in 19th century British murder trials,... ...hich the perpetrator got away with the crime.Some poisons such as cyanide and strychnine work according to... ...general state of health. Dea...

You've probably been told not to eat green potatoe... ...n told not to eat green potatoes because they are poison . Just how poisonous are they? The presence of chlorophyll in a potato... ...s Food & Think blog has a rundown of solanine poisoning cases spanning a century,...

(Image credit: Flickr user oxum)A man goes to a pa... ...e else at the party who drinks the punch dies of poison . Why didn't the man die? Once you've decided on... ...right. Highlight this space for the answer: The poison was in the ice cubes. When the man drank the punc... ..., the ice was fully frozen,...